In Perl 5, I can create a filehandle to a string and read or write from the string as if it were a file. This is great for working with tests or templates.
For example:
use strict; use warnings;
my ...

Is it possible to overload constants in Perl 6? Here is the Perl 5 example I'm looking at.
In particular I would like to get a string of the literal value used, e.g. if the code was
my $x = .1e-003 ...

Is there a way to get perl6 to generate an error message if a grammar does not match? Or at least return the position of the last data it processed? It is quite hard to fix syntax errors if all I get ...

I believe Perl 6 offers the capability of capturing repeating groups separately as opposed to earlier flavors where you could only capture the last group or the whole matched group string. Can someone ...

There used to be a graph that tracked the implementation of Perl6 against the test suite for Perl6. I was interested in watching it progress (and, regress). What happened to that graph, it used to be ...

I want to start dabbling in Perl 6. A large percentage of my programming involves SQLite databases. It looks like work has been put into using SQLite in Perl 6, but most of the info I can find is old ...